Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence (Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies) free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Sonja Schillings

Date:	2016-12-06	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1512600156
Pages:	302	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:	9781512600155
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Hostis humani generis, meaning enemy of humankind, is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturers, or terrorists as beyond the pale of civilization.
Sonja Schillings argues that the legal fiction designating certain persons or classes of persons as enemies of all humankind does more than characterize them as inherently hostile: it supplies a narrative basis for legitimating violence in the name of the state. The book draws attention to a century-old narrative pattern that not only underlies the legal category of enemies of the people, but more generally informs interpretations of imperial expansion, protest against structural oppression, and the transformation of institutions as legitimate interventions on behalf of civilized society. Schillings traces the Anglo-American interpretive history of the concept, which she sees as crucial to understanding US history, in particular with regard to the frontier, race relations, and the war on terror.

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